Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

I like to write about relationships. I like it when my friends come over and we crowd around the piano and sing Journey songs at the top of our lungs... And I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.